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Before We Leave is a city building game set in a cozy corner of the universe. Nurture your Peeps and their surroundings while rebuilding and rediscovering civilisation. Settle new lands and planets while avoiding hungry Space Whales.

Before We Leave is a city builder, casual and economy game developed by Balancing Monkey Games and published by Team17.
Released on May 13th 2021 is available on Windows and MacOS in 10 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Turkish and Japanese.

It has received 1,637 reviews of which 1,283 were positive and 354 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.5 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 4.49€ on Steam with a 75% discount, but you can find it for 0.42€ on Gamivo.

The Steam community has classified Before We Leave into these genres:

City Builder Casual Economy Relaxing Hex Grid Family Friendly Resource Management Atmospheric Building Singleplayer Space Post-apocalyptic 3D Sci-fi Simulation Top-Down Sandbox Strategy Colony Sim Base-Building

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System requirements

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Windows

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Windows 10 (64 bit only)
Processor: Intel Core i5-4300U or AMD Phenom II X4 975
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti or AMD Radeon HD 4890
DirectX: Version 11
Storage: 2 GB available space

MacOS

OS: OSX 10.14.2 Mojave (64-bit)
Processor: Intel® Core™ i5 3.0GHz, 21.5
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: 2 GB RAM
Storage: 2 GB available space

User reviews & Ratings

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April 2025

Different scenarios and the ability to change difficulty levels keeps the replay high.

March 2025

Before We Leave is overall an okay city builder, but suffers from a couple of significant issues. 1: The game appears to be horribly unoptimized and requires a significantly better computer than it should need to run. It straight up did not run on my old computer and causes excessive heating on my current one, which is a gaming laptop. 2: The game is very repetitive, forcing you to build up the exact same infrastructure on every planet you visit with no variation besides the different biomes. 3: The shipping UI is horribly designed and needs to be completely redone. The developers decided to be extremely lazy and used the same UI with the same import/export settings for both sea and space shipping. Combined with only being able to create a single spaceport per planet this results in serious issues, such as items that need to be exported to another planet not being exported if those items also need to be imported from a different island. A great example of how bad the shipping system is are two islands I have that generated two tiles apart. The UI treats them as a single island, yet I am unable to build a bridge between them. Trying to transport resources between the two “combined” islands is extremely tedious and requires excessive micromanagement due to the UI not supporting exporting and importing from the same island.

Feb. 2025

I have never been a big of a City Builder genre, it just has not given me the vibes of excitement when looking after a big city and look after their resources and happiness. Luckily, I still gave a chance to Before We Leave . It starts from easy (in my eyes), but will eventually spike in difficulty nice enough to keep you interested, as once getting basic resources and refined them, then comes the evil pollution and space monstrosity. Starting a new game time to time doesn’t feel as an punishment, but more of an reward as you can transfer that played knowledge to fresh start. Also, there’s an option for 4X game speed, which helps the busy gamers to play in shorter periods of times. Final score: 8/10

Dec. 2024

This game is amazing. I originally discovered it on a sale on PlayStation + on my PS5. I got almost every trophy there but the PS version doesn't have the Toxic Wasteland update or other additions that the PC version does. It's worth getting this game just for that and playing it again. Replayability is high as there's different worlds with different biomes that you won't encounter in just one playthrough. Some planets will not have the same resources as another, so you have to figure out ways to get everything to work together as a cohesive. The smart shipping that the PC version has makes shipping SO much simpler than manually setting what you need shipped and manually setting where you need whatever it is shipped to. The studio is already making the sequel, Beyond The Stars right now so I recommend playing Before We Leave first so you understand the story for Beyond The Stars. If you enjoy building cities, discovering new technology and seeing different enviroments, I recommend this game! However, be aware that this is a casual game. There's no action, no warfare, just a big ol' space whale that occasionally eats your planets. No biggie!

Dec. 2024

It's definitely a casual builder, but the resource management between islands/planets can be a lot to manage. Overall I played a lot when it was on game pass, and just picked it up for 5 bucks on sale, and it's easily worth the sale price.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Before We Leave is currently priced at 4.49€ on Steam.

Before We Leave is currently available at a 75% discount. You can purchase it for 4.49€ on Steam.

Before We Leave received 1,283 positive votes out of a total of 1,637 achieving a rating of 7.53.

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Before We Leave was developed by Balancing Monkey Games and published by Team17.

Before We Leave is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Before We Leave is playable and fully supported on MacOS.

Before We Leave is not playable on Linux.

Before We Leave is a single-player game.

There is a DLC available for Before We Leave. Explore additional content available for Before We Leave on Steam.

Before We Leave does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Before We Leave does not support Steam Remote Play.

Before We Leave is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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